Climate
change also affects a child’s learning pattern in school therefore resulting to
an isolated or paused emergent development. As coal’s by-product, nitrogen
dioxide (NO2), poses adverse health effects on children, a study shown
major complications it brings about such as asthma and other respiratory
diseases.

Consequently,
children in Southeast Asia have undergone serious manifestations of climate
change not limited to physical impacts but also psychological influences
as UNICEF’s report added.
Perhaps the biggest account on this problem is how the government should
approach and employ huge efforts to counsel school children.

Asian
Development Bank (ADB) in a report said that a rigid increase
of 4 degrees after Paris accord would possibly cause humanitarian
disasters. Locked-in and large population stream is an instance of the effects
of land and sea temperature rise.

Educating the ‘young’

The
Philippines has taken its lead to promote environmental responsibility through
infusing it to school-related activities, even integrating it to the country’s
educational setting.

Ordering
for its wide dissemination and compliance, the department is aspiring for the
successful implementation of the National Greening Program (NGP) of the
government in public and private schools, respectively.

Philippines’
neighbor, Indonesia, has boosted their clutches towards climate change
adaptation through the “Indonesian
Training and Education Programs”. The program inculcated major
assets in a multi-level participation and cooperation of the country’s
universities, schools, private sectors and other stakeholders in the field of
climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Indonesia’s
Ministry of Environment will also employ training schedules for teachers,
emphasizing Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini (Education for Children)
together with the country’s Department of Education and major NGOs to create
support education in terms of understanding concepts in global warming and
climate change.

Educating
the young populace to act in their own, simple ways can contribute to the huge
aspirations of the region towards sustainability and a distant quest for a
healthy future.

Underscoring
those targets, it aims to counter massive climate change effects of
agricultural production not only in the Philippines but also in Southeast Asia.

Investing for the future

With
the efforts to resolve the rippling effect of coal usage, more than 80
leaders on the energy sector have gathered last March in
Bangkok. The event hopes to build a comprehensive economy for clean energy. The
goal is clear: it potentially offers a sustainable future for the region to
avoid risk-related consequences.

Individual
and multinational companies have committed to these actions. Still, it is not
enough. Southeast Asia could drop its labor capacity by 16% over the next three
decades according to a research firm Verisk
Maplecroft said. Heat stress in labor-induced countries
including The Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia is subsisting as patronage of
other large companies to coal power continues.

As
a response to this notion, PCCAP or the
Philippine Climate Change Adaptation Project is setting a
long-term vision of “developing and demonstrating approaches that would enable
communities to adapt to the potential impacts of climate variability and
change.” They believe that close cooperation of community and private sectors
would guarantee an efficient adaptation and action framework.

Singapore’s
NGO and leading social enterprise, Green Future
Solutions, practically accredits a number of active NGOs in the
country who work for the environment, specifically climate change adaptation
and mitigation. These organizations have also focused on helping and
rehabilitating land and marine animal groups, as they are the most vulnerable
ones to the worst manifestations of climate change.

It
is indeed distant before the region and its neighboring countries achieve
synergized companies using clean energy on such rising economies. Southeast
Asia has everything on the bail, however, it will not take a long journey
before the region holds its decade-long revolution for sustainable energy.

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